Members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education in Ghana’s Parliament have inspected GETFUND projects in some Senior High Schools in the Eastern Region.
The committee led by its Chairman Kwabena Amankwa Asiamah, MP Fanteakwa North visited Oyoko Methodist, Opass, GHANASS, and Abomosu senior high schools.
Hon. Amankwa Asiamah was satisfied with the state and the progress of some of the projects particularly in schools such as Oyoko Methodist, Ofori Panin Senior high school, GHANASS, and Abomosu senior high schools.
The chairman however admonished the contractors in charge of these projects to expedite the progress of work on the various projects so that they will hand over for use.
A member of the committee Hon. Bernard Ahiavor, also a Member of Parliament for Akatsi South, however, raised the issue of unfairness in the distribution of GETFUND projects by the government.
“In Akatsi Secondary Technical School there is a hall that can take about 3000 but the classroom infrastructure cannot even take 1500, so when you are working on these assessment bases you cannot tell me that GHANA’S has a capacity of 2000, therefore, they need an infrastructure for the 2000 whilst a school in Volta region has a capacity of 3000 yet the classrooms are not up to the 3000 capacity”.
He continued “I cannot stand here and accept that when heads of schools were asked to bring the needs of their various schools it is only projected that we are seeing that are the heads who brought the needs of the project of their various school”.
He lamented that a typical example is Ofori Panin Senior High School which had about ten projects going on simultaneously whilst other schools are not having any.
Hon. Vincent Ekow Assifuah formal PRO for the Ministry of Education currently a lawmaker and a member on the committee debunked claims of the minority that GETFUND resources were unfairly distributed.
He said, there were needs assessment done in all the senior high schools and was presented to the ministry of education.
Hence schools were given their projects based on the needs assessment that was done and “so the failure of some school heads to present their needs to the ministry of education cannot be the fault of the government and so there is no inequality of distribution of GETFUND resources”.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
